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UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE,

STEVEN J. KLEIN, OE PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Yatent No. 609,680, dated August 23, 1898.

Application filed March 23, 1898. Serial No. 674,867. (No modeh) siding at Pittsburg, in the county of Alle gheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a speciication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in gates, and particularly that class known as farm-gates.

The object of the invention is to provide a gate which may be readily opened and closed by the driver of a vehicle without necessitating his dismounting from the vehicle. To accomplish this, I attach two cords or other devices to the spring-latch secured to the head-post of the gate. These cords are carried backward in alinement with the gate and operate on pulleys provided therefor on the hinge-post of the gate and upon the hingepost of the fence. The one cord is carried at right angles to the fence on its one side, and the opposite cord is carried at right angles on the other side of the felice, so that a pull upon either cord will tend to open or close the gate,

according to the position it may bein, the gate of course being hung in a manner to permit its swinging at right angles to 'each side cord 17 passes backward in alinement with of the fence.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specicatiomand wherein like figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved gate, showing same in the open position. Fig. 2 is a side view of a gate, partly broken away and partly in section to show how the cords are attached to the latch.A Fig. 3 is an end view. of the plate which receives the fasteninglatch.

It will of course be understood that the invention may be applied to any form of gate, whether of the picket or longitudinally-extending-bar construction, and for the purpose of illustration I have shown a gate of this latter form.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view4 In the drawings, 1 indicates the head-post of the gate,and 2 the longitudinally-extending bars, which are inortised in the head-post and in the hinge-post 3. This latter has secured at its rear face the eyelets at, which, together with the similar eyelets 5, that are secured in the fence-post 6, receive the hinge-rod 7.

The movement ot' the gate toward either side is controlled by means of stay-chains 8,

which are attached to one side of the post 3.

near its lower end and to the corresponding side of the post G near its upper end, these chains being of a length to permit the gates swinging to a point directly at right angles to the fence and prevent its further movement. One of these chains is attached to each side face of the posts 3 and 6.

To the front face of the head-post 1 I secure a spring-latch 9, which is bowed outwardly,

as shown in the drawings, so as to engage the the gate and through a keeper 19 provided therefor on the side face of the post 3, and through a keeper 20, provided on the side face of the post 6. Within these keepers rollers or pulleysmay be arranged to receive the cord, which extends outwardly to a post 21, located at right angles to the fence and at a vpoint equidistant to the length of the gate. This post carries a pulley or keeper to receive the cord, and, if desired, the cord may be provided on its free end with a suitable handle 23. The cord 1S is passed through similar keepers or pulleys 19 20, located on the opposite side face of the posts 3 and 6, and is then carried to the post 24,-, which is arranged in the same relative position at the opposite side of the fence as described for the post 21. Stationed in alinement with the post 24 and the post 6 on the one side of the fence is an outer post 25, and the latter post is stationed IOO at the same relative position on the opposite side of the fence or gate, each of these posts carrying a pulley or keeper 22, from which the respective cords 17 and 1S are suspended. The posts 21 and 24 are or may be provided on their face adjacent to the gate with the plates 11, the same as are provided on the post 12, so that the gate will lock when thrown to the open position.

We will now assume that the gate is in the open position and, the vehicle having passed through, the driver desires to close the gate, which can be done by a pull upon the cord 18, which releases the latch 9 and causes the oord to exert a strain upon the free end of the gate, so as to close the same, as when the spring-latch 9 comes in contact with the inclined lug 10 the swinging movement of the gate will be retarded, so that the latch 9 will engage between the two lugs and hold the gate in the closed position.

vThe cords 17 and 18, although herein described as two separate cords, are, as will be observed, practically one cord,which is passed through the eyelet 16, so that a pull on either of the free ends of the cord will cause the gate to open or close, according to the position in which it has previously been left.

It will also be noted that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a gate of the class described, consisting of a gate proper hinged to a suitable supporting-post, a spring-catch secured to the front edge of the head-post, a catch secured to a post and adapted to engage the spring-catch, stay-chains secured to each side of the gate and to the supporting-post, keepers secured to each side of the post 3, pulleys secured to each side of the supporting-post, said headpost being provided with an opening 15 into which projects an eyelet carried by the spring-v catch, operating-cords secured to said eyelet and passing through the keepers secured to the gate, and through the pulleys secured to the supporting-post, the operating-cords passing through pulleys or keepers carried by posts arranged at right angles to the gate when closed, substantially as described. s

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

STEVEN J. KLEIN.

Witnesses:

JOHN N oLAND, ALBERT J. WALKER. 

